Pittsburgh Penguins tough guy Arron Asham apologized for the mocking gestures he made after knocking out Washington Capitals winger Jay Beagle Thursday night. But Asham wasn’t too happy with the comments made by Capitals star Alex Ovechkin, who suggested Asham was disrespectful for picking on Beagle.

“I don’t know what Ovie’s talking about, disrespectful,” Asham told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. “A guy who throws his stick down and warms his hands over it. He is being a hypocrite himself. The rivalry is back. I’m sure the next game is going to have a lot of fireworks.”

Ovechkin ‘warmed his hands’ with his stick after scoring his 50th goal of the season in 2009.

“It’s a fight. It’s hockey game but again it was pretty tough. Beagle, like, he’s just first-year NHL,” Ovechkin said following Thursday’s fight that left Beagle bloodied. “Asham, I don’t know if he knows that or not, but just put him on the ice.”

He went on to say that Beagle isn’t a fighter, “it’s not his job to fight. I don’t know, it looked kind of not respectful for players on different team. I don’t know what people think, but I think it’s not respectful.”